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When she learnt that the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator sixteen times, Polly Evans decided to go and witness for herself the way this vast nation was hurtling into the technological age.

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But how will they respond to a man they haven't seen in twenty years, turning up and asking if they're coming out to play

Part-comedy, part-travelogue, part-memoir, Friends Like These is the story of what can happen when you track down your past, and of where the friendships you thought you'd outgrown can take you today...

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Writer and psychologist Stephen Cartmell set off to explore Britain using the cultural melting pot of the UK's 60 racecourses as his staging posts.

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Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa.

Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent.

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Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she and her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own olive groves, and made an offer. What happened next - selling her London house, and handing in her notice at the magazine - was going to be straightforward, or so she thought.

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Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics, this title explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots.

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The compelling and inspiring story of Karl Bushby, who is attempting to walk the 36,000 miles from the foot of South America back to Britain (via the Bering Strait and the Channel Tunnel).

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up.

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When Nathan Millward learns that he has just 20 days to leave Australia before his visa expires, he has a choice to make: fly home to England on the return ticket he already has, or set off on the adventure of a lifetime riding a decommissioned Australia Post bike across the world. Nathan hits the road. No time for planning or preparation, just go.

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At the age of 35 Andre Tolme quit his job as a civil engineer and decided that it was time to see something of the world. It was during a brief stop-over in Mongolia that he became struck by two things- he loved the country, but most of all he missed playing golf. A plan began to hatch in his mind...

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Driven by a desire to explore the most remote, barren yet romantic places on earth, Martin Buckley set off on a two-year journey through the world's deserts.

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A fascinating collection of some of Australia's most dramatic journeys from the 19th and early 20th century: epics of exploration, survival and tragedy, stories of mystery and romance, and of discovery and loss.

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Includes ten contributor's writings on 250 years of women travel writers. Travel is a quest, an escape, a passion. Women explorers and travellers are a special breed. This book covers 22 courageous women who encircled the globe, and boldly crossed international barriers often to encounter the most patriarchal cultures of their time.

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Two dozen women describe the country they love and why they have fallen under its spell

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Let's face it, for all its convenience, flying sucks the adventure out of a journey. Check your shoes. Bag your liquids. So when Seth Stevenson decided to embark on the ultimate adventure - circumnavigating the world, no less - he vowed to recapture what he once loved about travel by sticking to one simple rule: no planes, ever.

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A bestselling memoir of a later-life friendship and what happens when two ladies of a certain age decide to test the maxim 'Leap and the net will appear'!

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The story of an awe-inspiring expedition to the North Pole by a group of amputee soldiers.

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Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are show

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Hella Nation charts Wright's deeply personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood ber-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America's far right.

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What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father Does he continue his solo adventures Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures

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Kodas details how the recent infusion of wealth into mountaineering has brought about the age-old lust for glory. Through others accounts, as well as his own, the author illustrates the mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves--revealing villains as well as heroes.

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In Hold the Enlightenment, one of America's favourite and funniest adventure writers returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical - and human.